Good Old Days

As I was driving to work one day this week, a song came on the radio from January 1986.  The basis of the song is an adult grandchild speaking to her grandfather. She asks her grandfather to tell her about the ‘good old days’ because sometimes it feels like this world’s gone crazy. The more the song played, the more I reflected on the world today.  How things just seem to be a bit crazy.  The land is on fire, the air is so filled with smoke we can taste it, our political process is certainly heated, and COVID is raging. In our case, the ‘good old days’ may just be two years ago.  In the song, the timeframe is much greater.  “Let’s wander back into the past and paint me a picture of long ago”, the artist sings. The more I thought about the lyrics, the more relaxed I became. Yes, everything seems a certain way, but it doesn’t have to be that way.  I do believe life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. Isn’t it all just based on our point of reference?  To reference the song of Carly Simon from 1971, “These are the good old days”. Well, we have made it through the first full week, celebrate that. I wish you all a very relaxing weekend. Enjoy...Go PUPS! (cue Grandpa, The Judds)

Until next time...